NAACP, MALC sue to block voter ID

The NAACP and the Mexican American Legislative Caucus have sued to challenge Texas’ voter ID law, joining Rep. Marc Veasey and the Justice Department in filing a federal lawsuit to try and keep the state from enforcing the measure.

Thesuit, filed Tuesday in federal court, alleges that the Texas law violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and also runs afoul of the under the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

According to the suit, Texas’ voter ID law will “disproportionately prevent Latino and African-American citizens in Texas from voting in person and, in the totality of the circumstances, deny Latino and African American citizens an equal opportunity to participate in the political process and were enacted for that purpose.”